[Around July 30, 1901. Munich]¹

**Blondel.**

**Distribution**
**of rural population**
**in Germany**
**according to**
**Buchenberger ("Agrarwesen")².**

Landowners with hired
workers — 10.8%    10.8

Family members of the above
without hired workers — 97

Day laborers
Workers and farm laborers
Farm servants — 11.3
(?) — 19.
37.3

Workers: 15 + 3 servant girls.
92 head of cattle (28 dairy cows among them).

**NOTES AND EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK BY G. BLONDEL**

[37] (Bauer)
63 ha. 1 man + 1 woman + 2 daughters.
60 dairy cows. Cheese production. Brewery.
Workers: 18 + 3 servant girls.

[38] Söldner* — 12 ha. 1 man (+ 1 woman?) + 5 children.
1 servant girl.

— 21 ha. 1 man (+ 1 woman) + 6 children.
1 domestique**

[58] (Franconia) — 5 ha. Has additional income from carpentry***.
And "does not complain," "modest" life etc.****

— 2 ha. The life and especially the food of these poor people***** is as simple as possible... They consume almost no meat... They feed mainly on potatoes.

(2 farm laborers and 2 farm laborers' women)

He has three tenant farm laborers******: each has 1 1/2 ha from the owner
(1 farm laborer and 1 small servant*******). Natural economy predominates.

(Oldenburg) (2 horses, 5 dairy cows, 200 sheep********!). 6 farm laborers. (This peasant is an elder. Holds a fairly honorable position).

(near Halle). 10 farm laborers' women. Sells butter and other things in Halle. Complains of the crisis. But it is easier for him than for a large landowner (360 arpents*********—

[73] Saxony — 36 ha

[80] — 12 ha

[100—101] — 16 ha

[107] — 13 ha

around ... ha? — 6 farm laborers + 4 farm laborers' women + 2 farm servants*) — !!

to him [109] it is harder to economize — one must maintain a certain rank (! !)**

In Baden, of all German states, the area under farms of 20—100 ha and > 100 ha is the smallest
(Blondel, p. 416)³

**Baden:**           **All Germany:**
A  < 2 ha  — 13.7              5.7
B  2—5  — 28.7              10.0
C  5—20  — 42.3              28.8
D  20—100  — 13.1             31.4
E  > 100  — 1.8              24.1
          100.0              100.0

15.3% — in all other states
[with the exception of one: this % is higher there]
D
E
[Palatinat on the Rhine***: 11.4% + 2.3%]

¹ The date is established on the following basis. On July 30, 1901, Lenin from Munich informed Plekhanov of receiving Blondel's book from him (see Works, XXVIII, 248—249).

² "Études sur les populations rurales de l'Allemagne et la crise agraire" by Georges Blondel. Paris 1897 ("Researches on the Rural Population of Germany and on the Agrarian Crisis" by George Blondel. Paris 1897).

³ A. Buchenberger. "Agrarwesen und Agrarpolitik" in the edition of A. Wagner. "Lehr- und Handbuch der politischen Oekonomie" (A. Buchenberger. "Agricultural Economy and Agricultural Policy" in the edition of A. Wagner. "Textbook and Handbook of Political Economy").

⁴ The following data are taken from the same book by G. Blondel (Appendix 1, table on p. 416).